[PATCH] kprobes: fix unloading of self probed module

When a kprobes modules is written in such a way that probes are inserted on
itself, then unload of that moudle was not possible due to reference
couning on the same module.

The below patch makes a check and incrementes the module refcount only if
it is not a self probed module.

We need to allow modules to probe themself for kprobes performance
measurements

This patch has been tested on several x86_64, ppc64 and IA64 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h
index 10005bc92a31..669756bc20a2 100644
--- a/include/linux/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ struct kprobe {
         /* list of kprobes for multi-handler support */
         struct list_head list;
 
+        /* Indicates that the corresponding module has been ref counted */
+        unsigned int mod_refcounted;
+
         /*count the number of times this probe was temporarily disarmed */
         unsigned long nmissed;